I am so sick of the so called open/free source community defining what is free by their own puritanic standards. If you have the source code, the product is free. It's just as simple as that.
From the point of view of a business, if you let people have your source code, you've given away your product. It's free. Period. And just how many "open source" businesses are currently making profit? Without dubious accounting practises like that of RedHat.
The belief that the parasitic open source community would somehow help to improve your product is naive to the exteme. And what's the point in improving the product when you no longer have a product in the first place - at least a one that would help your bottom line.
So the State 'makes' things 'secure' and 'private' by passing a law that says that only 'bad' people will use hidden cookies.
Why the fuck do you have to write web sites that use cookies in the first place? If I just want to visit a site and it demands that I turn on cookies (or Java, JavaScript or Flash to name a few of my pet net peevees) there is no way that I'll comply. I regularly tell all my friends, coworkers and clients to do so as well.
Do you use IE like most people do? You can only block all cookies (and lose the use of your netbank, for instance) or allow all cookies.
Your point is almost the same as the "Do these people not know that you can just delete all that spam you get?"-line that spammers resort to.
Maybe we don't like cookies because we don't like to be pushed, filed, stamped, briefed, debriefed, or numbered? Maybe we don't like having to block cookies we never asked for in the first place.
I don't really think this matters that much. Especially, if you use something like Mozilla that can selectively block cookies. I let in cookies only from my netbank and Slashdot. If some other site won't let me in without cookies, they won't get a hit from me then.
I carry a 256 MB Compact Flash card with a pocket sized universal USB reader (reads SmartMedia, SecureDigital, Memory Sticks and CF) that plugs directly in a USB port. No wires, no batteries, no hassle.
On the card I have everything I might need from a PGP keychain to documents.
I am curious. Why would one need to defend one's home in the first place? I don't get it. Do you have a lot of deranged psychotics walking about and they all are just hell-bent on invading your homes? Oh, I get it. It's the same thing as with the Y2K. It can't hurt to be prepared for even the unlikelies scenarios, does it? Even better, with your semiautomatic M16 you are more than adequately prepared for those government tanks, F18s, artillery and troops if they suddenly decide to take away your freedoms...
And pray tell me why wars are fought primarily with firearms?
A kid grabs his dad's gun and accidentally shoots his friend ("we were just playing and the gun went off!")?
A kid grabs a knife and pretends to stab his friend ("I was just pretending that I stabbed him five times!")?
Which one of these do you think would be a more likely and fatal scenario?
My society does not, fortunately, allow any kind of private ownership of firearms. I have never had to defend myself. It may be true that "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns", but since they are in such a huge minority it does not really matter.
Mr. Wiggin: This is a 12-story block combining classical neo-Georgian features with the efficiency of modern techniques. The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these...
Client 1: Excuse me.
Mr. Wiggin: Yes?
Client 1: Did you say 'knives'?
Mr. Wiggin: Rotating knives, yes.
Client 2: Do I take it that you are proposing to slaughter our tenants?
Mr. Wiggin:...Does that not fit in with your plans?
Client 1: Not really. We asked for a simple block of flats.
Mr. Wiggin: Oh. I hadn't fully divined your attitude towards the tenants. You see I mainly design slaughter houses.
Clients: Ah.
Mr. Wiggin: Pity.
Clients: Yes.
Mr. Wiggin: (indicating points of the model) Mind you, this is a real beaut. None of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows incommoding the passers-by with this one. (confidentially) My life has been leading up to this.
Client 2: Yes, and well done, but we wanted an apartment block.
Mr. Wiggin: May I ask you to reconsider.
Clients: Well...
Mr. Wiggin: You wouldn't regret this. Think of the tourist trade.
Client 1: I'm sorry. We want a block of flats, not an abattoir.
Mr. Wiggin:...I see. Well, of course, this is just the sort of blinkered philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement, you whining hypocritical toadies with your colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic secret handshakes. You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Well I wouldn't become a Freemason now if you went down on your lousy stinking knees and begged me.
Client 2: We're sorry you feel that way, but we did want a block of flats, nice though the abattoir is.
They don't recall time where you had to pay to get a compiler, to pay to get an operating system, to pay to get manuals.
I still pay to get a proper compiler (Sun's C/C++ and Fortran, not some underperforming dog like GCC), an operating system (Solaris) and real manuals (not some utterily unsable info-shit).
As you could perhaps gather from my postscript, I'm not much of an expert in hacking Linux. However, if you could kindly direct me to a suitable web page, I might give it a serious try.
It is important that there exists a Windows client that can access such an ftp site. I've got some experience with Linux, but my friends will never be able to hack it.
It's just like the {M,R}IAA "tax" on all recordable media. Already in force in Canada and Europe (although Germany might be an exception?) and just wait until it hits you in the States.
A proposal to tax hard drives is currently on the table.
Last week I was going to buy two music CDs. I had sampled the music on the net and liked it and although the price stings a bit (about 15 euros/cd), I can more than afford buying this stuff. Hell, 30 euros is chickenshit in comparison to the cash I spend on good food and beverages every day.
I grabbed the CDs and was on my way out when I realized that - thanks to the local legislation - the CDs had been marked as "copy protected; will not play in a CD-ROM drive".
Now, these days I never play a CD as such. I have a 2 x 250 GB hard drive setup where I have all my CDs ripped in the original 44 kHz format (no MP3/OGG/whatever) with plenty of space to spare. This is because I want to play them over my wireless network anywhere in my apartment and make my own playlists that provide background music 24 h/day without me having to get up and change a CD every 40-60 minutes.
There is no fucking way that I'm going to pay even the chickenshit 30 euros for media that I then cannot use in the privacy of my home as I wish.
On that day, RIAA lost a customer until they change their strong-arming nazi tactics like copy protection and "tax" on all recordable media (just watch how hard drives will be taxed in Europe soon just like CD-R(W)s and recordable DVDs alreay are). Ok, so they think a consumer is a thief until proven otherwise? What do I have got to lose then? I'll just download those two CDs from the net.
I'd like to share my CDs and DVDs with a few of my friends (not "friends" as in Kazaa). Up until now I've been doing it simply by granting them an sftp access to my computer.
However, as far as I understand, sftp only encrypts the control data and leaves the file being transfered in the open.
Now, given the recent success the {M,R}IAA has enjoyed in strong-arming the ISPs into revealing detailed information regarding the habits of the "infringers of the IP rights", I do not feel that sftp is secure enough. I must be able to conceal the filename and data as well.
Any advise?
PS. FreeNet will not do. I will not touch that Java abomination with a 3-foot pole. After I discovered that Mozilla's Java plug-in download doesn't work (=work in "install shield" fashion), I have given up any hope of getting something as complex as the FreeNet to work.
What's more free, the freedom to take away the other's freedom or the prohibition to do it?
How about one's freedom to choose the license even if we assume for the argument's sake that a bad choice would mean less freedom? Should RMS get his way, there would be nothing but "free" software. Freedom to choose from one candidate is no freedom at all and any ideology that strives towards such a perversion of freedom is to be resisted at all costs.
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From the point of view of a business, if you let people have your source code, you've given away your product. It's free. Period. And just how many "open source" businesses are currently making profit? Without dubious accounting practises like that of RedHat.
The belief that the parasitic open source community would somehow help to improve your product is naive to the exteme. And what's the point in improving the product when you no longer have a product in the first place - at least a one that would help your bottom line.
Couldn't they summarize it all using three bullet-points?
Why the fuck do you have to write web sites that use cookies in the first place? If I just want to visit a site and it demands that I turn on cookies (or Java, JavaScript or Flash to name a few of my pet net peevees) there is no way that I'll comply. I regularly tell all my friends, coworkers and clients to do so as well.
Your point is almost the same as the "Do these people not know that you can just delete all that spam you get?"-line that spammers resort to.
Maybe we don't like cookies because we don't like to be pushed, filed, stamped, briefed, debriefed, or numbered? Maybe we don't like having to block cookies we never asked for in the first place.
I don't really think this matters that much. Especially, if you use something like Mozilla that can selectively block cookies. I let in cookies only from my netbank and Slashdot. If some other site won't let me in without cookies, they won't get a hit from me then.
Even better: Mini USB keyboards
On the card I have everything I might need from a PGP keychain to documents.
Everybody! Please help Ghyslain!
Really liked the "corrupting the youth", "making a mockery" and stagnation bits in particular.
I am curious. Why would one need to defend one's home in the first place? I don't get it. Do you have a lot of deranged psychotics walking about and they all are just hell-bent on invading your homes? Oh, I get it. It's the same thing as with the Y2K. It can't hurt to be prepared for even the unlikelies scenarios, does it? Even better, with your semiautomatic M16 you are more than adequately prepared for those government tanks, F18s, artillery and troops if they suddenly decide to take away your freedoms...
And pray tell me why wars are fought primarily with firearms?
A kid grabs his dad's gun and accidentally shoots his friend ("we were just playing and the gun went off!")?
A kid grabs a knife and pretends to stab his friend ("I was just pretending that I stabbed him five times!")?
Which one of these do you think would be a more likely and fatal scenario?
My society does not, fortunately, allow any kind of private ownership of firearms. I have never had to defend myself. It may be true that "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns", but since they are in such a huge minority it does not really matter.
I do. I inspect what packages it wants to install, though, but having automatic updating wouldn't be too bad either. I'd recommend that to my parents.
They could have sent out two 250-pound gorillas called Igor and Radek instead of an audio message.
Mr. Wiggin:
...Does that not fit in with your plans?
...I see. Well, of course, this is just the sort of blinkered philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement, you whining hypocritical toadies with your colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic secret handshakes. You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Well I wouldn't become a Freemason now if you went down on your lousy stinking knees and begged me.
Good morning, gentlemen.
Clients:
Good morning.
Mr. Wiggin:
This is a 12-story block combining classical neo-Georgian features with the efficiency of modern techniques. The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these...
Client 1:
Excuse me.
Mr. Wiggin:
Yes?
Client 1:
Did you say 'knives'?
Mr. Wiggin:
Rotating knives, yes.
Client 2:
Do I take it that you are proposing to slaughter our tenants?
Mr. Wiggin:
Client 1:
Not really. We asked for a simple block of flats.
Mr. Wiggin:
Oh. I hadn't fully divined your attitude towards the tenants.
You see I mainly design slaughter houses.
Clients:
Ah.
Mr. Wiggin:
Pity.
Clients:
Yes.
Mr. Wiggin:
(indicating points of the model)
Mind you, this is a real beaut. None of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows incommoding the passers-by with this one.
(confidentially)
My life has been leading up to this.
Client 2:
Yes, and well done, but we wanted an apartment block.
Mr. Wiggin:
May I ask you to reconsider.
Clients:
Well...
Mr. Wiggin:
You wouldn't regret this. Think of the tourist trade.
Client 1:
I'm sorry. We want a block of flats, not an abattoir.
Mr. Wiggin:
Client 2:
We're sorry you feel that way, but we did want a block of flats, nice though the abattoir is.
Do we really want this childmolesting fruitcake to take our side?
What's wrong with static, text and jpgs only pages?
Governator?
I still pay to get a proper compiler (Sun's C/C++ and Fortran, not some underperforming dog like GCC), an operating system (Solaris) and real manuals (not some utterily unsable info-shit).
As you could perhaps gather from my postscript, I'm not much of an expert in hacking Linux. However, if you could kindly direct me to a suitable web page, I might give it a serious try.
It is important that there exists a Windows client that can access such an ftp site. I've got some experience with Linux, but my friends will never be able to hack it.
It's just like the {M,R}IAA "tax" on all recordable media. Already in force in Canada and Europe (although Germany might be an exception?) and just wait until it hits you in the States.
A proposal to tax hard drives is currently on the table.
I grabbed the CDs and was on my way out when I realized that - thanks to the local legislation - the CDs had been marked as "copy protected; will not play in a CD-ROM drive".
Now, these days I never play a CD as such. I have a 2 x 250 GB hard drive setup where I have all my CDs ripped in the original 44 kHz format (no MP3/OGG/whatever) with plenty of space to spare. This is because I want to play them over my wireless network anywhere in my apartment and make my own playlists that provide background music 24 h/day without me having to get up and change a CD every 40-60 minutes.
There is no fucking way that I'm going to pay even the chickenshit 30 euros for media that I then cannot use in the privacy of my home as I wish.
On that day, RIAA lost a customer until they change their strong-arming nazi tactics like copy protection and "tax" on all recordable media (just watch how hard drives will be taxed in Europe soon just like CD-R(W)s and recordable DVDs alreay are). Ok, so they think a consumer is a thief until proven otherwise? What do I have got to lose then? I'll just download those two CDs from the net.
However, as far as I understand, sftp only encrypts the control data and leaves the file being transfered in the open.
Now, given the recent success the {M,R}IAA has enjoyed in strong-arming the ISPs into revealing detailed information regarding the habits of the "infringers of the IP rights", I do not feel that sftp is secure enough. I must be able to conceal the filename and data as well.
Any advise?
PS. FreeNet will not do. I will not touch that Java abomination with a 3-foot pole. After I discovered that Mozilla's Java plug-in download doesn't work (=work in "install shield" fashion), I have given up any hope of getting something as complex as the FreeNet to work.
How about one's freedom to choose the license even if we assume for the argument's sake that a bad choice would mean less freedom? Should RMS get his way, there would be nothing but "free" software. Freedom to choose from one candidate is no freedom at all and any ideology that strives towards such a perversion of freedom is to be resisted at all costs.
It's all about FUD.
RMS never misses a chance to spread out the word that GPL is the only Way, Truth and Life if you want to produce free software.
I dare you to claim that in front of RMS.